CVE-2007-3848

CVE Details

Release Date:	2007-08-14
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

Linux kernel 2.4.35 and other versions allows local users to send arbitrary signals to a child process that is running at higher privileges by causing a setuid-root parent process to die, which delivers an attacker-controlled parent process death signal (PR_SET_PDEATHSIG).

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	1.9
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2007-0939	2007-11-02
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.12.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2007-0939	2007-11-02
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.12.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2007-0939	2007-11-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2007-0940	2007-10-23
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-8.1.15.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2007-0940	2007-10-23
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-8.1.15.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2007-0940	2007-10-23